Connemara > Connemara Attractions

Advantages: Quite a striking monument in a gorgeous area
Disadvantages: One goes, one sees, one leaves...

...site at which the intrepid Alcock & Brown landed their plane after the first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight in 1919. And it's not at the real landing site either, which is a boggy field (actually, in this neck of the woods the use of the adjective 'boggy' can safely be assumed when dealing with any area of open land: one suspects even tarmac and concrete are a bit on the sodden side) just over a mile away: that's easily accessible too, but it really ...
...honours the achievement of John Alcock and Arthur Whitten-Brown the first men to fly non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean On the morning of the fifteenth day of June nineteen hundred and nine- teen they landed in their aircraft five hundred yards beyond the cairn which can be seen one and a half miles south of this point having left St. Johns, Newfoundland sixteen hours and twenty seven minutes before. The aircraft was a Vickers Vimy biplane ... Read review

Advantages: Wonderful, breathtaking beauty. Excellent experience.
Disadvantages: A little out of the way. Will not suit everyone

When you eventually approach Kylemore Abbey in connemara, you are simply amazed with the spectacular beauty and wonderfully landscaped area. Why so amazed? This Abbey is located 50 miles away from Galway in the middle of probably one of the most barren areas in Ireland. Connemara is known for its rugged beauty, its stone walls, and its flora which is particular to this part of the country. To then enter into a wonderfully designed and well cultivated ...
...could it be done? Kylemore Abbey, as the name would suggest is first and foremost a religious building. It houses the sisters of the Benedictine order who were firstly founded in Ypres, Belgium in 1665. The order then opened its doors in Dublin in 1688 at the request of King James II. While Kylemore Castle was built in 1871, under the direction of Mitchell Henry, it wasnt until 1920 that the order came to Kylemore and turned the castle into a house ... Read review